Kurt-Eisner-Denkmal, Memorial floor plate in Old Town Munich, Germany.
The Kurt Eisner Memorial is a steel plate set flush into the pavement of Kardinal-Faulhaber-Strasse, opposite house number 14 in front of the Palais Montgelas. It bears the chalk outline of Eisner's body as police marked it where he was found, with an inscription above naming him as the man who proclaimed the Bavarian Republic on 8 November 1918.
The memorial marks where Bavaria's first Prime Minister Kurt Eisner was shot and killed on February 21, 1919. This assassination was carried out by Lieutenant Count Anton von Arco Valley and marked a pivotal moment in the region's early post-war politics.
The memorial depicts a body outline as it would appear in crime scene documentation. This design connects forensic precision with how people mark loss and remembrance in public space.
The memorial sits on Kardinal-Faulhaber-Strasse directly opposite house number 14, close to Palais Montgelas in the Old Town center. Look carefully at the street level to spot the flat metal plate, as it blends into the pavement and is easily overlooked.
The steel plate reproduces the chalk outline police drew around Eisner's body at the discovery site, with the inscription naming him as the man who proclaimed the Bavarian Republic on 8 November 1918. Erika Maria Lankes designed it, and it was unveiled in 1989 for the 70th anniversary of the assassination.
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